Mario Arisio

Mario Arisio (5 July 1885-7 July 1950) was an Italian general during World War II.

Biography
Mario Arisio was born in Turin, Piedmont, Italy in 1885, and he served in the Royal Italian Army during the Italo-Turkish War and World War I. He became a colonel in 1926, a Brigadier-General in 1935, and a Generale di divisione in 1937. Arisio commanded an Eritrea-based brigade during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, and he commanded the Italian III Corps in southern France during the Fall of France. Arisio served in the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia on the Eastern Front, and he took command of the XII Corps in Sicily during Operation Husky in July 1943. He felt betrayed by the armistice in September 1943, and he sought to avoid the disarmament of his troops. He officially commanded the Italian 7th Army until 19 January 1944 and retired in 1948, and dying in 1950.